A story about difference, exclusion, and ultimately self-acceptance, Child of Glass explores the interplay between inner and outer and the journey we have to go on to become ourselves. Child of Glass is about Gisele, a fragile, strong, transparent girl who denounces the meanness that can mark life in the world. In sparse, poetic language that all of us, however young or old, ca...(展开全部)

关于作者 科马克·麦卡锡（Cormac McCarthy，1933 - ） 美国当代小说家，剧作家，已著有10部长篇小说及其他短篇作品和剧作。 先后斩获普利策奖、美国国家图书奖、全美书评人协会奖等美国文学界主流奖项，多部作品被改编为影视剧。 科恩兄弟根据麦卡锡小说改编的同名电影《老无所依》，获得包括最佳影片、最佳导演和最佳改编剧本在内的四项奥斯卡大奖。 关于译者 杨逸，女，生于1985年，南京大学英语系博士，麦卡锡爱好者和研究者，任职于常州大学英语系。

关于作者 科马克·麦卡锡（Cormac McCarthy，1933 - ） 美国当代小说家，剧作家，已著有10部长篇小说及其他短篇作品和剧作。 先后斩获普利策奖、美国国家图书奖、全美书评人协会奖等美国文学界主流奖项，多部作品被改编为影视剧。 科恩兄弟根据麦卡锡小说改编的同名电影《老无所依》，获得包括最佳影片、最佳导演和最佳改编剧本在内的四项奥斯卡大奖。 关于译者 杨逸，女，生于1985年，南京大学英语系博士，麦卡锡爱好者和研究者，任职于常州大学英语系。

In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard--a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape--haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.  While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance.

By the author of the critically acclaimed "Border Trilogy", "Child of God" is a taut, chilling novel that plumbs the depths of human degradation. Lester Ballard, a violent, solitary and introverted young backwoodsman dispossessed on his ancestral land, is released from jail and allowed to haunt the hill country of East Tennessee, preying on the population with his strange lusts...(展开全部)

A story about difference, exclusion, and ultimately self-acceptance, Child of Glass explores the interplay between inner and outer and the journey we have to go on to become ourselves. Child of Glass is about Gisele, a fragile, strong, transparent girl who denounces the meanness that can mark life in the world. In sparse, poetic language that all of us, however young or old, ca...(展开全部)

This title is set in Southern Anatolia, 260 AD. The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs, besieged by the Persian troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to draw up a peace treaty, but it is only a trap and the Emperor and his twelve guards are chained and dragged away to work as prisoners in a solitary Persian turquois...(展开全部)

This title is set in Southern Anatolia, 260 AD. The town of Edessa, a Roman outpost, is on its last legs, besieged by the Persian troops of Shapur I. Roman Emperor Licinius Valerianus agrees to meet his adversary to draw up a peace treaty, but it is only a trap and the Emperor and his twelve guards are chained and dragged away to work as prisoners in a solitary Persian turquois...(展开全部)

With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself. Roland Barthes was born in 1915 and studied French literature and the classics at the University of Paris. After teaching French at universities in Romania and Egypt, he joined t...(展开全部)

钱乘旦，男，汉族，1949年生，江苏金坛人。 高中就读于江苏省四大名校之一的南京师范大学附属中学，1973年参加高考，考入南京大学英语系。1985年于南京大学历史系获博士学位后，曾赴哈佛大学和爱丁堡大学作博士后。现任北京大学历史系教授、博士生导师、国务院学位委员会历史学科组成员、国家社会科学基金专家评审组成员、教育部社会科学委员会委员、中国英国史研究会会长、英国皇家历史学会通讯会士，澳门大学历史学系学兼职教授等职。2003年11月曾与齐世荣教授一起向中央政治局第九次集体学习作《15世纪以来世界主要国家发展历史考察》的专题讲解。 学科专长及研究方向 英国史；世界史；现代化历史比较；西方文化史。 目前承当的科研项目 主持211项目“英国及英联邦国家现代化研究”，985项目“英国及发达国家现代化研究”，国家“十五”社科基金项目“帝国解体与当代资本主义”。